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- Title
ANNULAR PANCREAS AND OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE.
- Authors
Benger, J. R.; Thompson, M. H.
- Abstract
Annular pancreas is a rare abnormality which, in some cases, will be an incidental finding. Recently, two case reports have highlighted the possibility that annular pancreas is responsible for extrahepatic biliary obstruction in the absence of pancreatitis. We present a case of obstructive jaundice in which an annular pancreas was noted at both ERCP and CT scanning, but in which the cause of the obstruction was a carcinoma of the ampulla of Vater. Obstructive jaundice should not be attributed to an annular pancreas until the alternative differential diagnoses have been positively excluded.
- Subjects
OBSTRUCTIVE jaundice; JAUNDICE; BILIOUS diseases &; biliousness; PANCREATIC diseases; DIFFERENTIAL diagnosis; ENDOCRINE glands
- Publication
American Journal of Gastroenterology (Springer Nature), 1997, Vol 92, Issue 4, p713
- ISSN
0002-9270
- Publication type
Article